Current Affairs, May 2014

31st May:• PM Narendra Modi issued
an order to abolishing all Groups of Ministers (GOMs) and
Empowered Groups of Ministers (EGOMs) set up during the UPA
regime.• Hockey World Cup starts in Netherland.

30th May:• Ajit Kumar Doval appointed
as National Security Advisor.

29th May:• The inaugural session of
16th Lok Sabha will be commencing from June 4 to 11.• Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has resigned from his Vadodara seat and
will be a member of Parliament from Varanasi.• Former
Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi wins in the
presidential election.

28th May:• Senior Supreme Court
advocate Mukul Rohatgi has been appointed the new Attorney
General of India.• Infosys President BG Srinivas Resigns
from his post.• Union Cabinet issue an ordinance allowing
former Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) chairman Nripendra
Mishra to take over as Principal Secretary to the new Prime
Minister Narendra Modi.• Kolkata Knight Riders reach into
the final of the Indian Premier League 7 after defeating Kings
XI Punjab by 28 run.

27th May:• Union Cabinet formed a
Special Investigation Team in black money case to be headed by
former Supreme Court judge MB Shah.• Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif talked on
different issues at a meeting today.

26th May:• Narendra Modi sworn in as
the 15th Prime Minister of India. A 45-member council of
ministers also took oath. Get the full list here.• Real
Madrid defeated Atletico Madrid by 4-1 at Lisbon to win their
10th UEFA Champions League title.

25th May:• China wins Uber Cup for 13th
time after defeating Japan by 3-1 in New Delhi. India wins
Bronze in the competition.

24th May:• Pakistan Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif will attend the inauguration of Narendra Modi as
prime minister on 26th May.• Congress Members of Parliament
from both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha elected Sonia Gandhi as the
chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party. • Shazia
Ilmi, a founder member and Captain GR Gopinath resign from Aam
Aadmi Party.• Hindustan Motors Ltd has suspended production
of the Ambassador as it shut down its factory at Uttarpara in
West Bengal state due to lack of demand.• Yusuf Pathan score
the fastest half century in IPL history with 15 balls against
Sunriser Hyderabad.

23rd May:• Militants attack on the
Indian consulate in Afghanistan's western city of Herat.•
Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi wins the trust vote in the
Bihar Assembly.• Former Indian test player Madhav Mantri
passed away at the age of 92.

22nd May:• Anandiben Patel took oath as
Gujrat's first Women Chief Minister.• Thailand's army chief
seized power in a military coup, deposing the elected government
after months of deadly political strife.• Flipkart, India's
largest online e-commerce company acquired online fashion portal
Myntra.com in Rs.2000 cr e-commerce deal.• Former
Intelligence Bureau chief Rajiv Mathur took over as the new
chief information commissioner in the Central Information
Commission.

21st May:• Narendra Modi resigned as
Gujarat chief minister today after 13 years in office.•
Anandiben Patel appointed as the new CM of Gujrat and she will
be Gujarat's first woman chief minister.• BJD president
Naveen Patnaik has been sworn in as Odisha chief minister for
the fourth straight term in Bhubaneswar.• Pawan Chamling
sworn in as Sikkim Chief Minister for the record fifth
consecutive time.

20th May:• Narendra Modi to Be Sworn In
As India's 15th Prime Minister on May 26, 2014.• Narendra
Modi elected as the leader of the BJP Parliamentary party.•
Jitan Ram Manjhi was sworn in as new Bihar Chief Minister by the
Governor D Y Patil.• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh
Yadav sacked 36 party leaders who had been appointed as
ministers of state in the state government after party's poor
result in recent Lok Sabha election in UP.• Government has
lift ban on SMS service in prepaid cellphones after four years
in Jammu and Kashmir.• CBSE Class 10 Results Declared which
recorded a pass percentage of 98.87.• 17 died as a bus
travelling from Jammu to Srinagar plunged into a 400-feet deep
gorge.

19th May:• Jitan Ram Manjhi selected as
the next CM of Bihar after the resignation of Nitish Kumar.•
Nabam Tuki was sworn-in as the eighth Chief Minister of
Arunachal Pradesh for the second consecutive term.• Dutchman
Louis van Gaal was named as Manchester United's new manager,
with Ryan Giggs as his assistant.

18th May:• President Pranab Mukherjee
dissolved the 15th Lok Sabha with immediate effect, completing a
formality before the constitution of the new House.•
Atletico Madrid wins the first La Liga title after 18 years.

17th May:• Manmohan Singh resigned from
the post of Prime Minister after the loss of UPA in 16th Lok
Sabha election.• Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar resigned
from the post after defeat in the Lok Sabha election.

16th May:• BJP lead UPA wins the 16th
Lok Sabha with 339 seats. Congress lead UPA gets 57 seats.•
BJP alone wins 285 seats and becoming the first single party to
get absolute majority after 30years.• Former Zimbabwe
batsman Grant Flower has been named as the batting coach of
Pakistan cricket team for two years.

15th May:• Inflation down to 5.2 per
cent in the month of April.

14th May:• More than 200 workers died
in a coal mine explosion and fire in western Turkey.

13th May:• The BSE Sensex crosses
record all time high of 24,000 points.• UPA government
appointed Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag as India's next Army Chief
to succeed General Bikram Singh who retires on July 31.•
Union Cabinet cleared the $400-million foreign investment
proposals by a global buyout fund KKR in pharma sector.•
President of India passed the Whistleblower Protection bill.

12th May:• The Nine and the final phase
of voting for the Lok Sabha polls 2014 held today. • India
has set a new record for voter turnout at 66.38 per cent for the
general elections 2014.• Manchester City football team
crowned as EPL champions after defeating West Ham 2-0 in the
final match.

11th May:• Mother's Day celebrated
across the world.• Seven policemen were killed and two
others injured when Naxals carried out a landmine blast in
Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district.

9th May:• The Supreme Court prohibited
use of bulls in south India’s ‘Jallikattu’ festivals, mainly
observed in Tamil Nadu as a bullfighting game.• In a
directive by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), minors above the
age of 10 years are allowed to open and operate savings bank
accounts independently.• President Pranab Mukherjee launched
India's own payment gateway 'RuPay', equivalent of Visa and
Mastercard, which will work on ATMs and mechant outlets and help
in reducing cash transactions.

8th May:• World Health Organisation
(WHO) in a study of 1600 cities ranks New Delhi as the world's
worst city for air pollution.

6th May:• BCCI Suspends Rajasthan
Cricket Association After Lalit Modi Elected as the President of
RCA.

4th May:• 18 killed, more than 100
injured as Diva-Sawantwadi passenger train derails in Raigad in
Maharashtra• India successfully test fires Astra air-to-air
missile from a SU-30 combat aircraft.• Kedarnath temple
reopens today to devotees after about a year when the shrine was
marred by flash floods that had left hundreds of people dead.

3rd May:• More than 2000 dead in a
landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan province,
Afghanistan.• Former world double sprint champion Tyson Gay
has been suspended for one year after testing positive in 2013
for a banned anabolic steroid by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
(USADA).

1st May:• May Day (International
Workers' Day) celebrated across the World. • One Killed and
14 other injured in a twin blast in Bangalore-Guwahati Express
Train at Chennai Central Railway Station.• Atletico Madrid
reaches the final of Champions League to play against Real
Madrid after defeating Chelsea in semi final.